It Takes a Team: Examining the Worship Planning Process
So what is the best way to organize the worship planning process? Here are a few observations, along with a model for analyzing your own congregation’s worship planning routine.
March 1, 2006
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1 min read
Trinity Sunday and the Call to Worship
Why should we observe Trinity Sunday when it isn’t a clear event in Scripture?
March 1, 2006
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1 min read
The "In Between" Words: How to keep fellow worshipers tuned in
As worshipers move from one element of the service to the next, they need help to understand what they are doing and why. Verbal transitions help them stick with the worship dialogue between God and gathered people.
January 20, 2006
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10 min read
From Passive to Participative Worship
How engaged are the worshipers in your congregation? Do they tend to function as observers or active participants?
January 1, 2006
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50 min listen
Baptism: A Sacrament for the Whole Congregation
This session drew upon biblical passages and confessional and liturgical texts from the Reformed tradition to demonstrate how Christian baptism is a communal, not an individual, sacrament.
January 1, 2006
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37 min listen
Realism and Worship: An interview with John G. Stackhouse Jr.
Worship that shapes us and helps us articulate our actual relationship with God needs to be as real as possible: true to the impossible ideals of the Gospel that both judge our present and promise us a glorious future, and true to the actual needs, opportunities, failures and successes of our life between worship services.
August 24, 2005
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4 min read
Worship
A word study on "worship," with specific attention to the medieval meaning of the word and how it flows into a life of "worshipful service."
June 24, 2005
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10 min read
Imaginative Options for Prelude, Offertory, Postlude
A transcribed address on the purpose, place and importance of a prelude, offertory, and postlude in a worship service
June 17, 2005
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33 min read
Contemporary Worship Music Matures
Theologically serious song writers are acknowledging Father, Son, and Holy Spirit in contemporary songs that unite head and heart. A feature story exploring how contemporary music is maturing theologically.
June 10, 2005
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9 min read
A Potpourri of Tips on Writing and Choosing Songs for Worship
Can the world still use new worship songs? Yes. Does their worth depend on how much they sound like other songs or how many people hear and sing them? No.
June 10, 2005
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4 min read
Growing With Peter Series: Go Tell Peter! - Mark 16
An Easter service celebrating the resurrection of Jesus and the certain victory we have in him.
June 1, 2005
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7 min read
The Gift of Hope - 1 Peter 1
A service plan in an Advent series in preparation for Christmas focused on the hope and assurance we have in Christ.
June 1, 2005
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8 min read
